@Lanlubber I agree with all of your points in this comment - I agree that all to often people spend money before seeing what they actually need, however, it is their money and there shouldn't be an indictment when people choose to do so. We've had a joke around the OB Ambassadors and with Michael and Corrie for a while "don't you know you can't overland for less than $95k" - and that has been joke because it simply is so far from the truth. I like your ideas about how you get hot water and am likely going to buy one of the hot water heaters you mention - I also do the same with the pump in the 5ga can, works great.
Ryan, thank you for this reply. I do want to emphasize that there was never any intention to ridicule anyone for how they spend their money. I was hoping to give some insight where incite might not be known.
I didn't mention it before , but before I bought me a flip up shower privacy tent, I froze my back side off even with hot water on a mildly cool day and the wind was whispering. I've been thinking I might buy me a horse trough and put inside my Scamp for a nice warm tub bath.
I don't know how old you are but in the 40's you would see migrant workers going down the road with a wash tub tied to the top or back of their old cars and trucks. Dad said that was their bathing facilities. I laughed then but later in the 1946 mom and dad divorced, mom, me and my younger sister, living under hard times moved to a cabin in the back woods of California, 65 miles NE of Sacramento. It had no running water, no electricity, no gas. It had a hand pump water well just outside the back door, and a two hole'r out house about 100 yards from the house. We had an ax, a tree saw and a whole lot of trees laying around the back yard. I was 11 years old and had to harvest and cut 7 cords of wood that year. I was the man of the house. Grandma (half Cherokee Indian and just off the reservation) would boil up water on the huge wood cook stove , one by one we would all take baths in the wash tub in the middle of the kitchen floor, next to the cook stove, once a week on different nights. It was a lesson in life that has stuck. Mom's income from child support, when she got it, was $50 a month. Hard time makes one think twice before spending on luxuries. Thanks for hearing my story...Lanlubber
This is great to know, as I was completely serious about combining the two. I have the Roadshower4 7 gal version which can pressurized to as high as 65 psi. I love it and it works for us in about 75% of situations for having a pressurized warm water option. Recently though, we've found ourselves in some colder weather camping and it would be great to have some hotter water for after sundown cleanup. It's great to hear it works!
@Steve This thread played a huge factor in our purchase of the Roadshower, and I greatly appreciate it. Apologies for any mucking it up on my part.
You have finalized the point that I was trying to convey. The conversation was cut short by the misconceptions of my post . In short I was told in this thread that this thread belonged to someone, and that alternate means were not welcome on this thread. My interpolation of that is = Go away, I don't care to hear about it. Go to other treads that talk about other means. Your spoiling my thread and my glory ! That said, If I am wrong I apologize, but I haven't heard any apologies from anyone who misconceived my words.
I am glad to see that someone has realized that I did bring up a good point in that there are alternate means to achieve the end results at a lesser cost. Pressurized vessels come in many shapes and forms. It is my understanding that the Roadshower comes in various sizes. Some that hold no more than 5 gallons of water. If that is the case my 4 gallon bug sprayer or someone's $100 home made PVC pressure devise is worth investigating before dropping $500-$600 .
I was not , and am not, talking about or critisizing those people that choose to spend the money for what they conceive as best for them. I am talking about saving money and alternate options to spending money and staying clean while out in the boonies. Years ago that was my wife's first question, how do we stay clean ? It was also her last question because she never wanted to go camping with the options I told her about. Things are different today, we don't have to go skinny dipping in a cold river or lake or heat our water on a camp fire and wash with a cloth or sponge, though some do.
Some people would not be caught dead with my bug sprayer shower and that's fine too, (with me). Others have found it to be a solution to their particular situation. I disagree that this thread is not the proper place to discuss any option to the Roadshower or other commercial devises. I sincerely hope that anyone new to this forum can see we ARE working to achieve the same goals for all of us. Debate should be welcomed by everyone as a way to come up with solutions of all kinds !
Thank you m e p 1 8 1 1 for bringing to light the good use for the tankless water heater and how it was helpful to you.
